Seven months after wildfire, temporary housing arrives in Jasper

[Castanet News]

The first trailers to house displaced locals rolled into Jasper, Alta., this week, about seven months after a third of the town was ravaged by a runaway...

[dennism3]

Finally

[dle]

It's wonderful that these temporary housing units are finally being set up. If the ones in the picture are the actual ones being set up, maybe they aren't quite finished with the roof in the picture. I question that flat roof as Jasper gets snow, a LOT of snow! I'm wondering if they should have some sort of peaked roof or overhead cover planned for them? Might not be an issue at all but it did cause me to wonder about it.

[cosseyl]

Well isn't that nice. Too bad Lytton isn't as "popular" as Jasper, because 3 years later, Lytton (where the entire town was destroyed) is still in limbo, yet 8 months later, Jasper is getting new housing for the 1/3 of the tourist town which was destroyed.